Art 305 - Art and Mass Culture » Summer 2020 » Baroque Quiz No. 4

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Question #1
The function of the French Royal Academy of Fine Arts was:
A.   to establish and maintain artistic standards
B.   all of these options
C.   to use painting as propaganda for the monarch's version of history
D.   to develop a complex curriculum based on a rationalistic philosophy
E.   none of these options
Question #2
The work of Italian Baroque artists Bernini, Caravaggio, and Gentileschi was characterized by:
A.   dramatic contrast between light and dark
B.   emotional intensity
C.   all of these options
D.   a focus on religious imagery
E.   none of these options
Question #3
The device known as the camera obscura is:
A.   an object that used a box, a small hole, and plastic film
B.   all of these options
C.   a box with a small hole through which an image can be projected and traced
D.   none of these options
E.   a photographic process for developing film
Question #4
During the Baroque period, the Catholic Church:
A.   directed artists like Caravaggio to use everyday people as models in order to preserve human dignity
B.   emphasized humor as a way to speak to the masses
C.   directed artists like Bernini to focus on real life to improve and uplift the image
D.   emphasized the visual arts as a way to speak to the masses
E.   emphasized the printed text as a way to speak to the masses
Question #5
Caravaggio’s dramatic shifting of the vanishing point, light source, and position of main characters brought the viewer:
A.   none of these options
B.   into the scene with emotional void
C.   all of these options
D.   into the scene with boldness and psychological connection
E.   into the scene with psychological distance
Question #6
French absolutist monarch Louis XIV endeavored to shift the mythic base of culture from:
A.   God to science
B.   all of these options
C.   none of these options
D.   God to humanistic naturalism
E.   God to king
Question #7
Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun was:
A.   known for her portraits
B.   one of the few female members of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
C.   none of these options
D.   the most celebrated woman artist of her time
E.   all of these options
Question #8
The term “propaganda” during this period:
A.   originated with Gentileschi’s use of painting to spread faith through emotion and art
B.   originated with Caravaggio’s use of live models to spread humanism through art
C.   originated with Louis XIV’s propagating royalty through art
D.   originated with the Church’s propagating faith through art
E.   originated with Bernini’s use of architecture to propagate faith in Louis XIV
Question #9
Jan Vermeer is known for his:
A.   all of these options
B.   portraits of the Dutch king and his court
C.   none of these options
D.   historical scenes of the conquests of monarchies of Northern Europe
E.   portrayal of light and women in meditatively quiet interiors
Question #10
The Counter Reformation was a response to:
A.   the Gothic Middle Ages
B.   the audacity of Baroque period art
C.   the austerity of Northern European art
D.   none of these options
E.   the Protestant Reformation

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